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The Syllabus as Curriculum: A Reconceptualist Approach by Samuel D. Rocha. The review examines the central tenets of Rocha’s book, namely that the syllabus is an object which is made, and that his phenomenological attention to the syllabus as such bears the poetic pledge and possibility of curriculum. Rocha considers the syllabus, working within the reconceptualist tradition of the curriculum field, as correspondence, essay, and outline, and describes the way it humbly gives itself to teachers and students as an invitational object. Using a presentative method and rooted in the humanities, Rocha additionally presents and explores three interrelated and analogical demands of the syllabus, namely love, art, and order, contributing to an ongoing and complicated conversation within curriculum studies and philosophy of education.
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From this point on, I will abbreviate the book in my in-text citations using SAC to avoid confusion.
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Cruz, C. Review of Samuel D. Rocha’s the Syllabus as Curriculum: A Reconceptualist Approach. Stud Philos Educ 41, 485–491 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-022-09831-x
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